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- DDN MGT Bulletin 88 DISA DDN Defense Communications System
- 4 FEBRUARY 92 Published by: DDN Network Info Center
- (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 365-3642
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
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- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN Network
- Information Center under DISA contract as a means of communicating
- official policy, procedures and other information of concern to
- management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may be read
- through the TACNEWS server ("@n" command at the TAC) or may be
- obtained by FTP (or Kermit) from the NIC.DDN.MIL host [192.112.36.5]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The pathname
- for bulletins is ddn-news/ddn-mgt-bulletin-nn.txt (where "nn" is the
- bulletin number).
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- REGISTRATION OF TAC USERS
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- On 25 October 91, the Defense Information Systems Agency
- (DISA) published DDN Management Bulletin 85, which discussed a
- problem with the timeliness of TAC users being re-registered
- with the Network Information Center (NIC). This problem
- surfaced as a result of MILNET hosts being deconfigured and
- moved behind concentrators/gateways. In Management Bulletin
- 85, the 15th of December had been set as the date the NIC was
- to terminate network access to all TAC users utilizing TAC
- cards registered to deconfigured hosts that had previously
- been direct-connected to the DDN.
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- The purpose of this bulletin is to advise all concerned that
- the 15 December 91 termination date has been extended. The
- reason for this decision is simple--there was not enough
- time to clear the logjam of users requiring re-registration
- processing both at the MILDEP level and at the NIC. The
- process of re-registering TAC users who now fall behind
- concentrators/gateways had become a difficult and convoluted
- problem. However, DISA and the Military Departments have had
- several meetings on this issue and have come to agreement on
- how to solve the problem long-term. Therefore, once new
- registration procedures are implemented and re-registration
- is moving smoothly, a new termination date for TAC cards
- issued under the "old" deconfigured hosts will be set.
- This will probably occur within the next few months and will
- be done in conjunction with the annual re-registration
- process.
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- If there are any questions, please contact Major Boyd at
- Comm (703) 692-7580 or DSN 222-7580, e-mail to SCC@nic.ddn.mil.
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